1. The paper groups unprocessed red meat and processed red meat together (with no reason given). Other research has shown that processed red meat can be bad for you but that unprocessed red meat may even have a beneficial effect (in moderate quantities).

2. The study is from the US and in the US a ‘sausage’ is nothing like the good old British banger. The ‘sausage’ referred to in the research (and quoted in this report) is salted and preserved and nothing like a UK fresh meat sausage.